Reliance Jio partners Microsoft for cloud infrastructure

Within months of launching its new Jio Fiber services, Reliance Jio could soon become one of the largest customers and partners for Microsoft globally.

On Monday, during Reliance Industry’s 42nd Annual General Meeting, Chairman Mukesh Ambani announced a partnership with Microsoft, wherein Reliance Jio will completely migrate all its internal workforce to Microsoft Office 365, which will include all the cloud-based collaboration tools. Jio will also port all its existing software applications used within the company to Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Now, while all this Jio data is set to reside on Microsoft servers, Reliance said it will be building new data centres across the country where Microsoft will setup its cloud solutions. Essentially, for the first time Microsoft is revealing who actually will host its data centres in India.